WEBVTT - Wyatt and Elizabeth in Revolt

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grimm

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<v Speaker 1>and Mild from Aaron Manky. Listener discretion advised. On Palm Sunday,

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen fifty four, Elizabeth Tudor, half sister of the Queen

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<v Speaker 1>Mary the First, was brought to be imprisoned at the

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<v Speaker 1>Tower of London. The tide was too low for Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 1>to enter through a watergate, and so she crossed a

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<v Speaker 1>drawbridge past rows of armed guards and the squawking, growling

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<v Speaker 1>royal menagerie. But the lions roaring and baring their teeth

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't the most frightening sight that the young royal princess suffered.

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<v Speaker 1>On her way to the inner ward of the tower,

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<v Speaker 1>where she would be staying, she passed the scaffolding where,

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<v Speaker 1>just weeks earlier, her cousin, Lady Jane Gray, had lost

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<v Speaker 1>her head. The scaffolding remained erect at the ready to

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<v Speaker 1>claim more victims. Elizabeth had been implicated in a plot

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<v Speaker 1>against her sister, the Queen. The plot has become known

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<v Speaker 1>as the Wyat Rebellion, in uprising of major landowners and

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<v Speaker 1>noblemen who would converge on London and attempt to overthrow

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<v Speaker 1>the Catholic Mary the First before her wedding to the

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<v Speaker 1>dreaded foreigner Prince Philip of Spain, replacing her with the

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<v Speaker 1>next in line, Elizabeth. But the rebellion had failed, and

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<v Speaker 1>the conspirators that hadn't fled were captured and interrogated. It

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<v Speaker 1>was almost certain that Elizabeth had known about the rebellion beforehand,

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<v Speaker 1>and now her sister Mary was determined to mount enough

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<v Speaker 1>evidence to prove that Elizabeth was guilty of treason, a

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<v Speaker 1>charge that would lead to her head on the chopping block.

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth was certainly aware how dire her circumstances were, how

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<v Speaker 1>precariously close she was to death, But even if she wasn't,

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<v Speaker 1>the very rooms that she was imprisoned in would have

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<v Speaker 1>reminded her. The chambers in the inner ward of the

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<v Speaker 1>tower were the same where her mother, Anne Boleyn had

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<v Speaker 1>been brought before her own execution, before King Henry the

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<v Speaker 1>Eighth had charged her with treason and had a Calais

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<v Speaker 1>swordsman slice her head from her pretty white neck. The

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<v Speaker 1>question was whether her daughter would now suffer the same fate,

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<v Speaker 1>And then what had only been nightmare became manifest in reality.

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<v Speaker 1>The Lieutenant Master Bridges received the document that would seal

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth's fate. Only a few days into Elizabeth's stay at

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<v Speaker 1>the Tower of London, a warrant for her execution had

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<v Speaker 1>been delivered. I'm Danish Wartz and this is noble blood.

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<v Speaker 1>Mary Tudor's ascension to the throne in the summer of

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen fifty three had been triumphant before her half brother,

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<v Speaker 1>King Edward the sixth died at only fifteen. He and

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<v Speaker 1>his advisers had attempted to rewrite the order of succession

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<v Speaker 1>and place Edward's cousin, Lady Jane Gray, on the throne,

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<v Speaker 1>which would exclude both of his half sisters Mary and

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<v Speaker 1>Elizabeth from the line, despite the wishes of the late

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<v Speaker 1>King Henry the eighth. But Mary Tudor galvanized her support

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<v Speaker 1>and marched into London triumphant with Elizabeth at her side,

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<v Speaker 1>as the powers opposing her crumbled. But that sense of

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<v Speaker 1>triumph and popular support for Queen Mary the First would

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<v Speaker 1>not last very long. Mary was thirty seven years old

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<v Speaker 1>when she became queen, and though medical progress today has

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<v Speaker 1>made it happily possible to bear children at that age

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<v Speaker 1>or older, by Tudor standards, the possibility of Mary having

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<v Speaker 1>an air was a rapidly dwindling possibility. Mary knew that

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<v Speaker 1>she needed to get married extremely quickly, not only on

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<v Speaker 1>the chance that she might be able to get pregnant,

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<v Speaker 1>but also because Mary fundamentally believed that as a woman,

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<v Speaker 1>she needed a man by her side to rule the kingdom.

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<v Speaker 1>There were certain aspects of her extremely early reign, like

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<v Speaker 1>at her coronation, where she declined dubbing knights herself and

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<v Speaker 1>instead assigned the role to a male courtier, that indicate

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<v Speaker 1>a fundamental lack of conviction with regards to what a

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<v Speaker 1>female monarch could do. Mary getting married have been all

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<v Speaker 1>well and fine in theory, but Mary's choice of husband

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<v Speaker 1>would reveal itself to be the fundamental blunder of her reign.

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<v Speaker 1>Her advisers and parliament wanted her to marry an Englishman.

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<v Speaker 1>In November, a parliamentary delegation came to Mary to formally

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<v Speaker 1>request it. The ideal candidate in mind, the unspoken front

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<v Speaker 1>runner was Edward Courtney, recently restored Earl of Devon, who,

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<v Speaker 1>like Mary, was a great grandchild of King Edward the Fourth.

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<v Speaker 1>But Mary had another husband in mine, Philip of Spain,

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<v Speaker 1>the son of the Holy Roman Emperor. In order to

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<v Speaker 1>understand why Mary would make such an unpopular choice, I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's worth rewinding a bit to remember just how

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<v Speaker 1>tumultuous Mary's childhood was. Her father was, of course, King

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<v Speaker 1>Henry the Eighth, and her her mother was Catherine of Aragon,

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<v Speaker 1>his first wife, a Spanish princess. When Mary was about

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<v Speaker 1>eleven years old, her father decided that he wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>pursue Anne Boleyn and annul his marriage to Catherine, which

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<v Speaker 1>meant illegitimizing Mary. Overnight, she went from princess to bastard,

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<v Speaker 1>separated from her beloved mother and isolated from the father

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<v Speaker 1>who once adored her but began treating her with outright contempt.

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<v Speaker 1>Her lifeline throughout this period was the Spanish ambassador. Her

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<v Speaker 1>greatest ally became the Holy Roman Emperor, who was advocating

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<v Speaker 1>to preserve his aunt Catherine's marriage and keep Mary legitimate. So,

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<v Speaker 1>even twenty years later, half Spanish, Mary still identified with

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<v Speaker 1>her Spanish ancestry and still trusted her Habsburg family. Mary's

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<v Speaker 1>chosen husband, promoted and celebrated by the Habsburg ambassadors, Mary trusted, was,

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<v Speaker 1>as I said, the Holy Roman Emperor's son Philip was

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<v Speaker 1>twenty six years old, handsome and virile. Mary was queen

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<v Speaker 1>now and her mind was made up. She managed to

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<v Speaker 1>strong arm Parliament and her counsel into accepting her decision,

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<v Speaker 1>but the public would be another story. It probably feels

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<v Speaker 1>obvious why people were against the idea of their queen

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<v Speaker 1>marrying a foreigner who would become king. After all, a

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<v Speaker 1>husband has power over his wife, so this foreigner would

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<v Speaker 1>just be lording over all of them. Was England going

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<v Speaker 1>to become just another habsburg state, a piggybank to fund

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<v Speaker 1>their expensive European wars? As the historian David Starkey points out,

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<v Speaker 1>there was also a specific context to the anti foreigner

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<v Speaker 1>sentiment at this time. The lower classes might have always

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<v Speaker 1>been xenophobic, but it was actually King Henry the Eighth

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<v Speaker 1>and his break from the Catholic Church that contributed to

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<v Speaker 1>nationalistic pride among the upper class and nobility too. As

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<v Speaker 1>Starkey writes, quote Henry's emphasis on England as an island empire,

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<v Speaker 1>standing independent and alone against a papal Antichrist on the

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<v Speaker 1>one hand, and Protestant rebels and heretics on the other,

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<v Speaker 1>helped make xenophobia intellectually and politically respectable among the elite

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<v Speaker 1>as well end quote, and so rumors of Mary's upcoming

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<v Speaker 1>marriage to a hated Spanish prince began sowing seeds of

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<v Speaker 1>discontent that would quickly bloom into outright rebellion. Though Thomas

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<v Speaker 1>Wyatt wasn't really the leader of the rebellion that bears

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<v Speaker 1>his name, because it is known as the Wyatt Rebellion,

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<v Speaker 1>it feels worth talking a little bit about who he

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<v Speaker 1>is and how he got to the point where he

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<v Speaker 1>would raise troops and arms against the Queen of England.

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<v Speaker 1>Wyatt was born around fifteen twenty one, the son of

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<v Speaker 1>a famous courtier who's known for possibly introducing the sonnet

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<v Speaker 1>to England and possibly having an affair with Anne Boleyn

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<v Speaker 1>before she married King Henry. Though not much is known

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<v Speaker 1>about this younger Thomas Wyatt's early life, it seems like

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<v Speaker 1>he studied classical military strategy and moral philosophy before embarking

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<v Speaker 1>on life as a soldier. There were a few early

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<v Speaker 1>bouts of legal trouble which maybe reveal a less than

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<v Speaker 1>strict adherence to the rule of law. In fifteen forty three, Wyatt,

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<v Speaker 1>along with two of his friends, went on what I

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<v Speaker 1>found delightfully described as a quote episode of aristocratic hooliganism,

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<v Speaker 1>during which they drunkenly broke some windows and threw stones

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<v Speaker 1>at sex workers down on the banks. Wyatt also got

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<v Speaker 1>in trouble for eating meat on Fridays and on fast Days,

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<v Speaker 1>which led to him being imprisoned in the Tower of

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<v Speaker 1>London for a month. But none of that seems particularly notable,

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<v Speaker 1>except in the ways it speaks to what would happen

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<v Speaker 1>later in his twenties. Wyatt would be commissioned to lead

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred men in the war against France. He purported

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<v Speaker 1>himself incredibly well and was promoted to captain, and then

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<v Speaker 1>he was knighted. During an attack on Hartlot Castle, he

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<v Speaker 1>personally stormed the first gate and broke the door open,

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<v Speaker 1>leading to him being commended.

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<v Speaker 2>For his personal bravery. King Edward the sixth continued to

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<v Speaker 2>pull England towards Protestantism, but when he died, his Catholic

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<v Speaker 2>half sister Mary took over, determined to return the country

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<v Speaker 2>to her faith. There has been plenty written about whether

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<v Speaker 2>the motivation for the Wyatt rebellion was religious. Was Thomas

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<v Speaker 2>Wyatt a devoted Protestant who saw overthrowing Mary as essential

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<v Speaker 2>for preserving his choice of worship. The historians disagree about

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<v Speaker 2>just how religiously motivated, how anti Catholic the rebellion was. Certainly,

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<v Speaker 2>Wyatt's propaganda downplayed the anti Catholic angle, no doubt, trying

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<v Speaker 2>to rally as much popular support as possible. When someone

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<v Speaker 2>brought up the hope that they would restore Protestantism as

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<v Speaker 2>a reason for the rebellion, Wyatt apparently replied, quote, you

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<v Speaker 2>may not so much as name religion, for that will

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<v Speaker 2>withdraw us from the hearts of many. You must make

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<v Speaker 2>your only quarrel for overrunning by strangers. In other words,

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<v Speaker 2>the anti Philip sentiment is the winning argument. Whatever religious

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<v Speaker 2>goals Wyat might have privately held in his heart, he,

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<v Speaker 2>like many others, was incensed by the approaching wedding of

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<v Speaker 2>Queen Mary to a foreign prince. The question, then, was

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<v Speaker 2>what was he going to do about it. In the

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<v Speaker 2>fall of fifteen fifty three, a group of established Landed

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<v Speaker 2>men with military experience, all likely Protestant, got together to

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<v Speaker 2>make a plan. They landed on a rebellion that would

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<v Speaker 2>consist of four individual uprisings across England that would all

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<v Speaker 2>converge in London on March eighteenth, Palm Sunday of the

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<v Speaker 2>next year, before Prince Philip was expected to leave from

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<v Speaker 2>Spain in anticipation of his upcoming nuptials. Sir James Croft

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<v Speaker 2>would lead his men from Herefordshire. Henry Gray, Duke of Suffolk,

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<v Speaker 2>would rally the Midlands, Sir Peter Carew would come from

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<v Speaker 2>the West, and Thomas Wyatt would come from Kent. It's

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<v Speaker 2>hard to gauge exactly what they imagined the plan would

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<v Speaker 2>be once they reached London. Certainly they assumed that the

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<v Speaker 2>people would come out and rally behind them, but then

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<v Speaker 2>what Even among the conspirators, there seemed to be disagreement

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<v Speaker 2>about whether or not the goal would be to assassinate Mary,

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<v Speaker 2>and it seems most likely that the plan was to

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<v Speaker 2>put Elizabeth Tudor on the throne and marry her to Courtney.

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<v Speaker 2>But it also sort of seems like Suffolk, the father

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<v Speaker 2>of Lady Jane Gray, would have probably wanted his own

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<v Speaker 2>daughter to be queen again. Later, once the rebellion failed,

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<v Speaker 2>Wyatt would claim that he meant absolutely no harm to marry,

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<v Speaker 2>that he only wanted to protest the advice of her

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<v Speaker 2>Privy counselors and keep her from marrying a foreigner. But

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<v Speaker 2>of course, once you're captured, you're going to want to

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<v Speaker 2>frame your rebellion in as innocent a light as possible.

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<v Speaker 2>But whatever their ultimate goal, the rebels would never make

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<v Speaker 2>it that far. Word of the rebellion got out months

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<v Speaker 2>before the scheduled uprising, and when Carew was summoned to

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<v Speaker 2>a Privy Council meeting on January Tewod fifteen fifty four,

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<v Speaker 2>the men knew that the proverbial jig was up. If

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<v Speaker 2>they were going to move, it needed to be now.

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<v Speaker 2>The other three planned arms of the rebellion were harmlessly doused,

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<v Speaker 2>their leaders fled or captured, and only Wyatt was left.

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<v Speaker 2>On January twenty six, hundred troops departed from London to

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<v Speaker 2>meet him, under command of the then eighty year old

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<v Speaker 2>Duke of Norfolk. The London contingent stood opposite Wyatt's men,

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<v Speaker 2>and there was a moment before the groups engaged, But

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<v Speaker 2>then a shout erupted through the London men. They cried,

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<v Speaker 2>we are Englishmen. There were cheers, and the London men

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<v Speaker 2>turned their royal white coats inside out to hide the

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<v Speaker 2>royal insignias defecting to Wyatt's side, the people, it seemed,

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<v Speaker 2>would join with him. Bolstered and buoyed by the support,

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<v Speaker 2>Wyatt and his men marched toward London. It was with

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<v Speaker 2>this encroaching threat that Queen Mary the First gave the

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<v Speaker 2>speech of her career, appealing directly to her subjects. She

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<v Speaker 2>publicly proclaimed quote, I cannot tell how naturally the mother

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<v Speaker 2>loveth the child, for I was never the mother of

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<v Speaker 2>any But certainly if a prince and governor may as

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<v Speaker 2>naturally and earnestly love her subjects as the mother doth

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<v Speaker 2>the child, then assure yourself that I, being your lady

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<v Speaker 2>and mistress, do as earnestly and tenderly love and favor you.

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<v Speaker 2>Mary managed to underplay the real fear among her people

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<v Speaker 2>that you would be married to a hated foreigner, against

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<v Speaker 2>the wishes of Parliament and her advisers, by saying quote,

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<v Speaker 2>ye shall understand that I entered not into the treaty

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<v Speaker 2>without advice of all our privy Council, and by assent

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<v Speaker 2>of those to whom the King my father committed his trust.

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<v Speaker 2>In the word of a queen, I promise and assure

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<v Speaker 2>you that if it shall not probably appear before the

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<v Speaker 2>Nobility and Commons in the High Court short of Parliament,

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<v Speaker 2>that this marriage shall not be for the singular benefit

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<v Speaker 2>and commodity of all the whole realm, That then I

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<v Speaker 2>will abstain not only from this marriage, but also from

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<v Speaker 2>any other whereof peril may insure to this most noble realm.

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<v Speaker 2>Her appeal to the people worked. Even with the added defectors.

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<v Speaker 2>Wyatt's troops numbered fewer than three thousand, and without London

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<v Speaker 2>rising up to join him, there was very little realistic

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<v Speaker 2>hope for success, and though Wyatt did advance by putting

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<v Speaker 2>down a Government attack at Sharing Cross, when they reached

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<v Speaker 2>Saint James, his group split into two factions, with his

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<v Speaker 2>main body of rebels continuing along Fleet Street before finding

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<v Speaker 2>Ludgate barred to them. Eventually, Wyatt and his men turned

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<v Speaker 2>to face a cavalry commander who forced his surrender. Though

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<v Speaker 2>the rebellion was not successful in the end, Mary was

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<v Speaker 2>facing genuine danger. Historians do point out several points in

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<v Speaker 2>the rebellion were only slightly different actions Wyat moving faster

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<v Speaker 2>straight to London, or keeping his group together and attacking

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<v Speaker 2>the Palace, where Mary was less than properly defended might

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<v Speaker 2>have changed history, but alas Wyatt was brought to the

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<v Speaker 2>Tower of London, where his interrogation began. The rebels had

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<v Speaker 2>been planning to replace Mary, it seems, with her sister, Elizabeth,

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<v Speaker 2>and Mary was determined to find the evidence that she

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<v Speaker 2>was sure would prove her Protestant sister guilty of treason.

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth knew that she was in trouble. Once the rebellion

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<v Speaker 2>was put down, Mary summoned Elizabeth to life London, ostensibly

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<v Speaker 2>to have her stay with Mary for her own protection,

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<v Speaker 2>but obviously in order to get her into custody and

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<v Speaker 2>prevent her from going into hiding. Elizabeth wisely declined the invitation,

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<v Speaker 2>saying that she was too ill to travel. Mary called

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<v Speaker 2>her sister's bluff, sending two physicians who determined that Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 2>was in fact well enough to move to London, whether

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<v Speaker 2>her illness was psychosomatic or not. Elizabeth was ill as

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<v Speaker 2>she went by litter to the city, but perhaps knowing

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<v Speaker 2>what she was facing, one can hardly blame her. The

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<v Speaker 2>stress would have made me keel over right there. Mary

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<v Speaker 2>refused to see Elizabeth when she arrived, and put Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 2>immediately under guard in a small isolated apartment. When word

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<v Speaker 2>came that Elizabeth would be moved to the Tower of London,

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth understood that meant she would be one step closer

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<v Speaker 2>to her death. Elizabeth begged to be permitted to write

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<v Speaker 2>a letter to her sister, and even though they were

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<v Speaker 2>losing the tide, her guard granted her that opportunity. Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 2>wrote deliberately slowly, so that the boat would not be

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<v Speaker 2>able to take her to the tower that day. It

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<v Speaker 2>is not an overstatement to say that she was quite

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<v Speaker 2>literally writing for her life. Quote if any ever did

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<v Speaker 2>try this old saying that a king's word was more

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<v Speaker 2>than another man's oath, I most humbly beseech your majesty

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<v Speaker 2>to verify it to me, and to remember your last

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<v Speaker 2>promise and my demand that I be not condemned without

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<v Speaker 2>answer and due proof. Elizabeth pledged her loyalty to her

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<v Speaker 2>sister and begged Mary to believe that she was entirely innocent.

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<v Speaker 2>The letter, sometimes referred to as the Tide Letter, worked

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<v Speaker 2>insofar as Elizabeth managed to delay enough for them to

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<v Speaker 2>miss the tide, and Elizabeth was brought to the tower

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<v Speaker 2>the next day, but Mary did not reply. The evidence

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<v Speaker 2>against Elizabeth was thin, but it was there. Wyatt had

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<v Speaker 2>written her a letter before the rebellion, and allegedly Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 2>had replied, though pretty non committally, by sending a servant

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<v Speaker 2>back to deliver a message in person. Copy of one

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<v Speaker 2>of Elizabeth's letters had been given to the King of France,

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<v Speaker 2>who would have, in theory, been backing the rebellion once

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<v Speaker 2>Mary had been taken off the throne, and Elizabeth had

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<v Speaker 2>apparently been making plans, allegedly at the rebels behest to

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<v Speaker 2>move her household from Ashridge, where she was living, to Donnington,

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<v Speaker 2>one of her other palaces that would have been a

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<v Speaker 2>more Strateig stronghold. A few days after Elizabeth was put

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<v Speaker 2>in the tower, her interrogation began. When questioned about the

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<v Speaker 2>Donnington move, at first, Elizabeth said she didn't even remember

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<v Speaker 2>having that palace. Elizabeth was at the time the second

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<v Speaker 2>largest landowner in England, so you can't expect her to

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<v Speaker 2>remember all of her houses. But eventually she conceded, quote, indeed,

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<v Speaker 2>I do now remember that I have such a place,

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<v Speaker 2>but I never lay in it in all my life.

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<v Speaker 2>But as the interrogation continued and Elizabeth was presented with

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<v Speaker 2>more evidence, including from Sir James Croft, one of the

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<v Speaker 2>captured conspirators himself, Elizabeth countered saying, quote, as concerning my

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<v Speaker 2>going onto Donnington Castle, I do remember that mine officers

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<v Speaker 2>and you, Sir James Croft, had such talk. But what

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<v Speaker 2>is that to the purpose, my lords, But that I

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<v Speaker 2>may go to mine own houses at all times. After all,

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth is correct on that count. It's not illegal to

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<v Speaker 2>go to one of your own houses. When Tomas Wyatt

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<v Speaker 2>finally went to the block on April eleventh, fifteen fifty

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<v Speaker 2>four before he died, when he was speaking to the crowd,

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<v Speaker 2>he declared that Cortney and Elizabeth were completely innocent of treason,

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<v Speaker 2>but the priest on the scaffold, doctor Hugh Weston, interrupted

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<v Speaker 2>him in a panic to try and undercut him to

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<v Speaker 2>say actually, under interrogation he admitted differently, but cutting off

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<v Speaker 2>a confession moments from death was not a good look

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<v Speaker 2>for the priest or for the government. Though Wyat was executed,

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<v Speaker 2>people witnessing the execution dipped handkerchiefs into his blood to

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<v Speaker 2>keep as mementos, and his head, which was mounted on

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<v Speaker 2>the gate as a warning to other traders, was actually

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<v Speaker 2>stolen fairly quickly as a martyr relic. As I said,

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<v Speaker 2>the material evidence against Elizabeth was pretty thin, she would

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<v Speaker 2>later write in one of her more Yoda like verses,

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<v Speaker 2>much suspected by me, nothing proved can be. But of

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<v Speaker 2>course evidence doesn't always save someone from a beheading. Elizabeth's

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<v Speaker 2>own mother, Anne Boleyn, was killed on trumped up charges.

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<v Speaker 2>As Elizabeth waited in the tower, imprisoned, she knew that

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<v Speaker 2>death was a very real possibility and that her fate

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<v Speaker 2>was fundamentally out of her hands. And then her worst

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<v Speaker 2>nightmares were made real. Allegedly, a death warrant came to

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<v Speaker 2>the lieutenant at the tower, calling for Elizabeth's beheading, but

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<v Speaker 2>as the story goes, the man decided to follow up

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<v Speaker 2>to ensure that the order was correct, and he realized

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<v Speaker 2>that the warrant had not in fact been signed by

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<v Speaker 2>Queen Mary herself. If the warrant had come at all,

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<v Speaker 2>it was just something of a dummy warrant, apparently written

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<v Speaker 2>by Mary's chancellor to have ready just in case. And

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<v Speaker 2>as some stories go, when Queen Mary heard that the

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<v Speaker 2>warrant had been written without her consent, she was furious.

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<v Speaker 2>The literal tide had saved Elizabeth from one extra night

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<v Speaker 2>in the Tower of London, but the metaphorical tide saved

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<v Speaker 2>her life. As it became clear that the evidence against

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<v Speaker 2>her was flimsy and the crowds were growing dismayed at

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<v Speaker 2>the bloodshed, it became apparent that Elizabeth's life would be spared. Gradually,

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth's privileges of moving around the tower were increased, and finally,

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<v Speaker 2>two months after she was escorted into the tower, Elizabeth

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<v Speaker 2>was released to live under house arrest. Mary had survived

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<v Speaker 2>the Wyatt Rebellion and her sister Elizabeth had survived its aftermath.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the story of the Wyatt Rebellion. But keep listening

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<v Speaker 2>after a brief sponsor break to hear about the rebellion's

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<v Speaker 2>most famous supernatural supporter. Wyatt wasn't the only public voice

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<v Speaker 2>against Queen Mary, the first marrying Philip of Spain. In

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<v Speaker 2>early spring fifteen fifty four, a voice from nowhere, from

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<v Speaker 2>beyond the grave began speaking from a wall in Aldersgate

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<v Speaker 2>Street in London, denouncing Mary and Philip and speaking out

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<v Speaker 2>against Catholic Mass and confession. It was a spirit, some

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<v Speaker 2>supernatural power communicating directly with the people, sometimes referred to

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<v Speaker 2>as the Voice or the bird in the wall. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a strange phenomenon which allegedly attracted a crowd of

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<v Speaker 2>thousands of people. It's unclear whether the voice was working

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<v Speaker 2>in organized tandem with the planned rebellion or whether they

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<v Speaker 2>just shared the same opinions on national politics. Eventually, the

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<v Speaker 2>ruse was discovered. The voice in the wall was not

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<v Speaker 2>a ghost. It was a young servant girl who had

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<v Speaker 2>been smuggled in to a hollow wall. Her name was

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<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth Croft, no relation to the Sir James Croft who

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<v Speaker 2>had been meant to lead part of the rebellion. And

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<v Speaker 2>though Elizabeth Croft was arrested, it was ultimately determined that

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<v Speaker 2>she was just an innocent party working on behalf of others,

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<v Speaker 2>and though she apologized, she wasn't ultimately punished. As a

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<v Speaker 2>side note, if you like historical hoaxes, you should probably

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<v Speaker 2>listen to another podcast I do called Hoax with an

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<v Speaker 2>exclamation point. We just finished our first season and we

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<v Speaker 2>covered plenty of spooks and spirits and pranks like this.

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